Russia, searching for avenues to bolster its war in Ukraine, appears poised to send North Korean troops to the front, in a move described as 'a significant escalation'.
Russia 's President Vladimir Putin and North Korea 's leader Kim Jong Un attend a state reception in Pyongyang in June. Ukraine 's president and South Korea's spy agency say North Korea has sent thousands of troops to Russia .
"We know about 10,000 soldiers of North Korea that they are preparing to send to fight against us," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenkyy said last week.Ukraine is reporting some 11,000 North Korean troops had already been sent and will be ready to fight by November. "There are so many upsides that North Korea can accrue by sending troops to the battlefield between Ukraine and Russia," said Dr Bong Youngshik, from Yonsei University.
In another video, shared on the social media platform X by Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communications, men could be seen gathering uniforms inside a building.Russia has denied the claims, while NATO members, including the United States, have not confirmed the reports. "Russia is struggling to recruit enough men to fill the ranks to fight the war in the way that Russia has chosen to fight it, which is a very wasteful way of fighting it in terms of human life."
Last week, Putin introduced draft law to parliament that states that in the event one of the countries "is subjected to an armed attack" and "thus finds itself in a state of war", the other "shall immediately provide military and other assistance with all means at its disposal".It also has about 50 ready-to-fire nuclear warheads, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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